Experts begin to analyse the black box

The Dutch Safety Board which is leading the investigation into the Malaysia Airlines tragedy said an international team of investigators, working in Hampshire, had conducted a thorough examination of the cockpit voice recorder (VCR).
The board went on: "The CVR was damaged but the memory module was intact. Furthermore no evidence or indications of manipulation of the CVR was found.
"Following the examination, the CVR data was successfully downloaded and contained valid data from the flight.
"The downloaded data have to be further analysed and investigated." The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) added: ``A thorough analysis of the information obtained will take time, the results of this will be included in the investigation."
The team will start the examination of the black box flight data recorder in earnest today.
The black boxes were delivered to the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) headquarters in Farnborough early yesterday.
As the first 40 bodies from the crash site arrived in the Netherlands, the AAIB and other experts began their examination of the boxes.
The CVR will have given them a recording of up to two hours' conversation between the pilots. The FDR will provide them with a record of how the plane's multiple parts were operating and were being operated. It is possible that the information from CVR handed over to the Dutch could give an indication of whether the pilots were aware of a missile coming towards the plane.
There is also the possibility that what happened in the last few seconds of the flight could be disclosed in any words the pilots were able to speak.
Even as the planes were flying to Eindhoven, news came through of further violence in the Ukraine, with reports two Ukrainian fighter jets had been shot down 20 miles south of the MH17 site.